Lil Yachty not afraid to admit that some streaming stars have outgrown rap celebrities.
Chatting with Shannon Sharpe on Club Shay Shay, Yachty broke down how streamers like Kai Cenat, iShowSpeed, xQc, and Adin Ross have become major forces in entertainment.
When Sharpe asked him around the 2:30 mark about who Cenat compares to in rap, Yachty didn’t hesitate.
“He’s the Drake of streaming,” Boat said about Cenat, who’s got a massive 16 million followers on Twitch.
“You got Plaqueboymax who is killing it right now, bro,” Yachty gushed. “I haven’t met him yet but I’m a big fan. We kind of connecting in the same way—connect through FaZe Clan. He’s just like [a] really canon, young Black dude. He’s just doing his thing. He love music, and he just putting on for the underground culture in a different way, in a different light, and he’s killing it.”
Yachty gave props to streamers for keeping it real, unlike the fake personas you often see in hip-hop.
“I appreciate these kids just going in front of their computer and like being themselves,” he shared. “You know rap is a lot of, like, fake personas. Streamers are just them. It’s just, ‘That’s who I am, this is who I am.’ They could be a little corny sometimes, a little cheesy, but that’s just them, you know? And that’s just what it is.”
